Laughing teen robber from Wrexham is sentenced to seven years
TEENAGE robber Connor Davies laughed as he was locked up for seven years yesterday.
Judge Philip Hughes, sitting at Mold Crown Court, asked him if he thought it was funny?
“Go away and spend the next seven years thinking about it,” the judge told him.
The court heard Davies, 19, of Queensway, Wrexham, was one of two men who robbed a taxi driver after a ligature was put around his neck and he was threatened with a knife and a hammer.
The second man had never been caught.
Davies admitted robbing taxi driver Belal Udin in the early hours of April 26 – the defendant’s second such conviction.
Sentencing him to six years and eight months youth detention for robbery with a consecutive four months for being in breach of a suspended sentence the judge said it was a premeditated attack on a vulnerable taxi driver who had been left with injuries.
Davies, he said, had shown no remorse and had been heard to remark in the police station after his arrest that he should have hit his victim across the head with the hammer.
“What makes it worse is that you have previous convictions, including one for robbing a female taxi driver,” the judge said.
Sandra Subacchi, prosecuting, said the victim worked for Prestige Taxis in Wrexham and at 3am he received a call to Trevanna Way, Wrexham. As he was looking for the address, two young men appeared and said they had booked him.
They asked to be taken to a garage at Hightown and said they wanted to call at some domestic garages at Crossways on the way.
Passenger Davies went into an alleyway near the garages, returned, and as the taxi driver began to drive away a cable or wire was pulled around his neck by a second man in the back seat.
He stopped the vehicle and struggled to get free, as Davies produced a hammer and tried to hit him to the head from the passenger seat.
The second man, who had a knife, got out, opened the driver’s door as the victim grabbed Davies’ hammer.
Mr Udin was extremely frightened and he grabbed the knife by the blade in a bid to disarm the second man, cutting his hand as he did so.
But the knifeman grabbed £100 in takings, the ignition keys and the victim’s mobile phone before they both ran off.
Mr Udin was later picked out Davies in an identification procedure.
The victim had since returned to Bangladesh, said Miss Subacchi.
Davies made a no comment interview but in the police station was heard to say: “I should have hit him across the head.”
The previous robbery in 2008 involved Davies and a second man who grabbed a female taxi driver's money bag.
Davies punched her to the side of the head and received an 18-month detention and training order in the youth court.
A suspended sentence for an affray when he struck someone to the back with a wheel brace was imposed three days before the robbery on Mr Udin.
Andrew Green, defending, said Davies suffered from adult ADHD which led to impulsive behaviour when combined with alcohol, drugs and peer pressure.
That, said Mr Green, was a “very bad combination indeed”.
He was sorry, wished that he had not done it and he was undertaking anger management and victim empathy courses in custody where he had a trusted job as a cleaner.
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